<div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/8 Gerald I. Evenden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geraldi.evenden@gmail.com">geraldi.evenden@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As an aside, I dropped the string into vim and it displayed it properly.</blockquote></div><br>Not surprising, since UTF-8 is the standard system wide encoding for Ubuntu (and many other Linux distributions). UTF-8 was designed (by Unix founder Ken Thompson - see details on the previously quoted page by Markus Kuhn) in order to facilitate easy transition from 7-bit ASCII to a more globally useful encoding, so really most of the classic Unix command line tools are supposed to support UTF-8 today.<br>